The approach to acting is ...

The approach to acting is always the same, you try to figure who the guy is and then you try to transition your way into his way of thinking and moving through the world. The rest of it is just accoutrements, you don't play the makeup, you play the guy. If you're not wearing makeup, you just play the guy.
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 Ron Perlman

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Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
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The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.
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I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.
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I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.
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I had an opportunity to be in Frank's [Sinatra] circle, but I couldn't take advantage of it because I couldn't get over how awed I was by him. It was so uncomfortable for me because he meant so much to me, but I just couldn't be myself, so I fled rather than having those great nights hanging out.
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